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NOTES OF THE DAY
BRITAIN'S CHALLENGE
SPAIN'S FOUNDATIONS TREMBLE AGAIN.
By A. EDDY
The Very Idea!
DUMB BELLE LETTRES, By Juliet Lawcl
of in other lands under similar condi. Rover, Rover, Quick Corne Over.
Mr. Struthers. Burt Southern Pines, N. C. Dear Sir:
011
I've read your stories about your ranch. I'd like to come out to Wyoming and bring my Father. cattle I ought to be good on ranch as Dad was a butcher' in Germany twenty years ago.
Rover K-
(algned)
To-day, for the first time in British history, a Queen of England will christen a merchant ship. But what a ship! The new Conard-
Since the disappearance liner, No. 534 until this White Star afternoon, but probably to be named authority in the person of Kington.
the Alfonso the rumblings of the under- Britannia by the Queen 1.5 vessel slips Into the Clyde, is the ground forces tearing the founda-
The Wilsonian principle of solf- largest thing afloat. She will be tons of the Spanish Republic nun- something over 83,000 tons when der have become niore and more determination of the small nations has added a new impetus to the pronounced. completed, 1,018 feet in length eleven decks towering up from her The economic depression intensi- slumbering ambitions of the differ waterline. Her speed will be some-fed by the recent elevation of cus-ent nationalities in Spain and thing around 30 knots, and will toms barriers against Spanish-agri-further complicated the cause of the Iberian Peninsula. enable hor to make the Atlantic i cultural products in the neighbour-r the Catalans, there are the crossing in
four days with ense. ing countries; the almost complete
the moan- There is a chance that the huge disappearance of overseas remit-Basques and Gallegos who want ship will tour the British Empire tances from Latin America and the autonomy. Living in before she goes into schedule sail- thousands of continually returning tainous regions of the Bay of the Basques, Europe's oldest ings, and it is therefore possible destitute Spaniards from Central that Hongkong may have a view of and South America, have aggravat- ed the employment problem_tre- mendously. Perhaps the most hos-tongue and who pitable country in Europe, Spain people able to completely withstand hurry home. Just think, we'll be was the last one to prohibit the the effects of the Roman elvillaa- employing of newly arrived foreign- tion, lived their own national life ers in the country's industries and and had their original customs up commerce.
to the last century. However, they had to succumb to the relentless centralising policy of the Bourbon dynasty, with whose removal the flame of national life has become
her.
for
RICH PRIZES
Cunard-White Star will have the two biggest vessels aflost when Britannia's sister-ship is launched, and plans are already well nd- vanced for her construction. But
All the above factors, however, even before Britannia's sister is are only the contributory causes of ready for work, the race
a chronic economic and political again active. Atlantic prizes will have com-anlcatar" or unhealthy condition,) menced. Germany, with the Europa the roots of which lead us back to and Bremen, France with her the polley of the former ruling nearly-completed Normandie, Italy house
boom na well ag to the with her luxury liners, all Are conditions of the war and early bidding for the cream of the trans- after the war period, ocean trade, the rich passenger bookings and big mall subsidies. The fastest vessola get such plums. Britain, when Britannia and her sleter-ship are salling
should fill her basket.
The standard of Hving of the Spanish worker in the pre-war days was much bolow that of the West ern European countries and a large together.percentage of the land was con-
COST OF INDEPENDENCE
A Woman Of Forethought. Mr. David Oat
whose language has no Darling:
to
any other European the only were
I miss you terribly, please
married one month from to-day. married people to our wedding. You ask why I only Invited The answer in that all the presents will be clear profit. Pounds of love,
Your honeysuckle,
Clarabelle. Caignod)
Better Left Unsaid.
Dr. Nathan Krass Temple Emanu-El. East 65th Street New York, N. Y. Dear Dr. Krass:
You have nothing to say but you know how to say it.
Anonymous (signed)
Tell-Tale Night Shirt. Missus Lady:
night shirt for this snappish night
but young Mrs. just now marry.
matter this kine becauso two three I asking Mrs. Musa-shiya what's
year she wearing flannelette night How strong the anarcho-syndical-shirt now. She say stop up face ists (organised into purely eco- more better mind own business. nomic federations) had become
Good bye.
MUSA-SHIYA the
SHIRTMAKER (signed)
A Bashful Host. Judge Ben Lindsey Los Angeles, Calif. Dead Judge:
Sam F-
(Signed)
8-24
The Gallegos, occupying the Northwestern corner of Spain and having a strong racial and cultural affity with the Portuguese, also elamour for autonomy. Even the Asturians, (Middle-North of Spain), Andalusians and Valencians (these lust also have a different which was the native language, tongue of Blasco Ibanez) voice now centrated In the hands of the and then their desire to break away aristocrats and the Church who, as from the authority of Madrid. in Hungary, constitute at present which, in their opinion, represent the royalist party pining for the the old type hidalgo element still return of the king.
savouring of feudalism. The ardent Mr. de Valera, with The badly organised and 2171-
The labour organisations in Spain
I allways know when Lady his doctrines of independence for successful
attempt of General have always been of a distinct type not long marry, because wearing the Free State, may presently force Sanjurjo in 1932 to seize the power (Influenced by the Italian anarchist
do crape the exodus of at least one of the "to put an end to the foreign in-writer Malatesta) from the rest Maybe cole night this time wear- sheen night shirt. greatest of Irial industries. fluence in Spain" (this refers to of Europe. Academically and in-ing ajao. More better flannelette HOME POLITICS Arthur Guinness, Son & Co., Dublin, imported radical theories) WILA dividually great politicians, prac is to open a branch brewery near manoeuvred and financed by them,tically and collectively the workers The impending reassembly of London, in any event, and in the and indications show that, although in Spain are against politics as
be out of the open political game for means of solving the social ques- future the entire plant may Parliament is giving rise to
removed to Britain. The removal the time being, they are still atlon. speculation at Home as to the project has been discussed ever powerful factor in the national life i
since Mr. de Valera nasumed of Spain. precise time the Government power. The firm's trade lies most- will choose to make an appeal to outside the Free State. It does
during the War was remarkably This make announce anyhow. not wish to be separated from the Spain, with the exception of proven by the occasional general the country. There is a sugges-British fiscal system and it is fairly Catalonia and the region of Bilbao, strikes staged by them, completely tion that the General Election seceded from the Empire, Guinness cultural state. During the war, the entire country. Their
certain
that if the Free State (Basque country) is chiefly an agri-paralysing the economic activity of could with advantage take place would "secede" from the Free however, there was a great demand has declined considerably during power in the autumn of next year, but State, It la a preliminary to the for agricultural as well as manau the last few years and many of the a feeling also prevails that it cent. of the Guinness plant is going her industries developed partly to organised by agitators of the Soviet possibility of secession that 25 per factured products by the Allies and recent labour movements have been might be better tactics to post- "over the water."
supply that demand and partly to school. The Spanish labourers, in pone the dissolution. antil the
step into the shoes of European general, however, accept the prin- following spring, as the Chan- UNEMPLOYMENT
exporters in the Latin-American ciples of the Marxists, but not the
I want a lawyer to get me markets. The origin of many tactles employed by them. cellor of the Exchequer would
ananufactured articles advertised as
out of jail. They put me here, then be given au opportunity of
The loss to Dublin will be felt producte ingles," especially textile
wrongfully accusing mo of break- ing into a house and trying to introducing two popular Bud-Dublin brewery are being moved to the war
immediately. Six kieves of the "goods, sold in Latin-America during The Industrial districts of Barce-steal. The fellow who claims to was traceable to sunny lona and Bilbao are saturated with have seen me had his head hidden gets. There is, of course, no London, which will leave 18 in Spain, whose merchants enjoyed a syndicalist tendencies, while the under the bedsheet all the time I reason why the...Government Ireland. Despite the fact that the golden shower coming from the communistically-minded-agrarians-was-in-his-room-
business is extending so rapidly, warring factions and from hungry are active mostly In Southern Spain, should make an early appeal to employees of the brewery in the overseas importers clamouring for especially in Andalusia where large the electors, unless it be the Free State will suffer loss of time. goods at any price.
tracts of land are now being ex known divisions which have To give an idea of the earnings The post war period found Spain ploited by the workers themselven,
and expenditures of the company.
with Iarge stocks sprung up in both the Labour in a good year Guinness has pal manufactured goods and
of low quality who turn over to the landlord only n com- in a small portion of the crops collect- and Liberal Parties. With the £16,000,000, in Government duty. paratively overdeveloped industry ed. Opposition divided, the chances Its peak sales in a year run into unable to hold its own in facs of The political tug-o'-war in Spain 115,000,000 gallons of porter and the resumption of exports by, the to-day is between the still peralat of the National Government be- stout. Some 14,000 persons in Allies, Germany and Japan, with ing feudal spirit (which exists ing returned to power would be Dublin depend upon the company depreciated currencies as compared notwithstanding the numerous enhanced. There have recently The firm in distinctly Irish, Lord in trade and agricultural activity is Industrial workers in the country. for a livelihood at the present time. to the high value of the peseta at social and land reforms) and the that time. The resulting shrinkage rising power of the agrarian and been some altempts to get the Iveugh like his father, being a | Liberal and Labour executives Chanceller of Dublin University, one of the immediate causes rest is very doubtful whether by and for the past six generations ponsible for the restricted economie adopting a more liberal and de- Lo agree to a working agreement the family has been connected with activity in Spain.
Like
nost centralising policy and organising in the next General Election, in the Irish capital. But business is countries where boom conditions the Government along federal lines, the hope that National candi-business, as Mr, de Valera would prevailed during the war, Spain Madrid will be able to forestall a be the first to admit, and they may failed to adjust her production to evolition which has been hanging dates will be prevented from not stay.
normal conditions and is now suffer over Spain like the sword of securing victories in certain
ing the consequences as experienced Damocles for the last three years. constituencies by reason of mists led by Sir Stafford Cripps split in the Progressive vote, but look like creating trouble for the so far no definite understanding Party as a whole. So far as the has been reached. Indeed, at National Government is concern- the Liberal Summer School at cd, it has a record of which it which this issue was the pre- need not feel ashamed. It has dominant one, one of the Labour straightened out the national visitors, a candidate for Parlia-poucy has without doubt con- finances and its general economic ment, bluntly declared that atributed to the better state of far better alternative would be affairs now prevailing. The un- for the Liberals to take a bold employment problem has, ad- step and merge themselves in mittedly, not been solved, but the Labour Party. This idea is any real impression on this not quite so far-fetched as might general improvement in world issue will have to await the scem at first sight, since it has conditions. With the working- become increasingly apparent in classes, the Government is not bye-elections that the Liberal too popular, duo to a feeling that Party continues on the decline. the Conservative element in the If recent indications can be the situation to such an extent Adminis ration has dominated taken as a guide, indeed, it seems that the masses have not re- that the Liberals are in distinct ceived a full share of considera- danger of complete extinction as tion in the sphere of domestic a separato political unit. The legislation. It is conceivable, tendency may be regrotted, but however, that the Government. during the remaining period of
It will have to be faced in course its tenure of office, will make an of time. When all is sald and effort to placate the working- done, there is very little real classes, possibly by making Bud- difference between Liberal ideals get concessions in their favour. and those of the moderate con- No-one can say at this stage trolling element in the Labour what the likely fate of the Party. With regard to internalGovernment will be at the next dissension, this is not nearly so skilfully played, there is no ren- election, but if the cards are marked in the case of the son why it should not receive n Labourites as it is with the vota of continued confidence
·lot'a protond. I'm young" Mr. Carson, calling on you for...
I want a lawyer to get, me out of jail.
Why Stop At 217. Men About Town Coloumn New York Evening Journal New York City Gonta:
Where do you get that stuff call- ing yourself "men about town" anyhow? The night of repeal I looked in 21 hotels for you and couldn't find hido nor hair of you.
Jim H
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fooling A Trolley Car. Mr. Max Loewenthal, Landlord
Dear Sir:
We've decided to take the Lexington Avenue apartment after all. You convinced me that the trolley cars wouldn't. bother us after the first few nights, and you know, we can spend the first fow nights at Mother's
Mrs. Matthaw H
(signed)
Didn't Oblige. Broadway Department Store Gentlemen:
I am returning this black
dreas for credit. I
expected
Mother to die but she quickly.ro covorod.
Yours truly, -Miss-Atina "Mam